The
southwest Virginia Community Food Security Assessment is now
available for download! Visit our Virginia page
for more information on the AVFSN convening, the CFSA report,
and related media coverage! If you missed the April 8th
webinar on the report findings, the
archived recording is now available.

Check out our new Stories of Community Food Work in Appalachia,
an initiative to collect, create, and
share stories
of activists, educators, farmers, and community professionals
in our region. These stories express the diverse experiences
of people working for food systems change, and include the
voices of practitioners from across western North Carolina,
southwest Virginia, and West Virginia.

Check out our
summary report from the Central Appalachian Foodshed
Conference. This was a partnership of the AFP, the
Central Appalachian Network, and the Appalachian Funders
Network. You can also access the report (with links to
conference sessions) on
LocalWiki. The Central Appalachian Foodshed Conference
was made possible by a generous grant from the Virginia
Cooperative Extension Community Viability endowment fund.

If you missed the May 26th webinar on the AFP graduate course,
Food Security and Resilient Communities: Food Systems Theory and Praxis,
you can view the archived recording and download
the syllabus and other resources on our
webinar page.

On Monday, April 27th, Tracy Kunkler of Social Profit Strategies
spoke at a Community Voices event on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA. You can now listen to her
presentation, where she talks
about her work in complex systems. You can learn more from her
podcast
with Trustees Without Borders.

If you missed the April 16th webinar on the new
WV Foodlink tool, you can link to the archived recording on
our webinar page.

If you missed the March 19th webinar, Engaging Youth in Healthy Corner Stores
Work - Direct From the Source with
Youth
Empowered Solutions (YES!), you can find the
archived recording and presentation slides on our
webinar page.

The Virginia SNAP/EBT Farmers Market Toolkit is now
available on the VFMMA site. If you missed the November 20th webinar, you can find the archived recording and
presentation slides on our webinar page.

If you missed the December 18th webinar, A Framework for Linking Food System Networks: the
Experiment in Central Appalachia, the archived link and
presentation slides are available on our webinar page.

The Appalachian Foodshed Project (AFP) is using a foodshed concept to address issues of community food security in
West Virginia and the Appalachian regions of North Carolina and Virginia. AFP aims to facilitate a network of
organizations and individuals working to address issues of community development, economic viability, health,
nutrition, food access, social justice, and agriculture. By working collaboratively, AFP hopes to build on the
human and natural resources in the region to cultivate resilient food systems and vibrant, healthy communities.

Similar to the concept of a watershed, a foodshed takes into account everything between where
food is produced and where it is consumed. This includes the farms and gardens used to raise food,
travel routes used to transport products, processing facilities, distribution
(farmers markets, brokers, retailers), and the restaurants, institutions, and
homes where we all eat.

The Appalachian Foodshed Project’s (AFP) Regional Report on Community Food Security pulls together the key learnings from West Virginia’s, Appalachian North Carolina’s and Virginia’s Community Food Security Assessments. Click here to download the report.

NOTE: The table of contents includes hyperlinks so it is easier for you to jump to sections in the report.

As many of you know, the AFP has evolved into the Appalachian Foodshed Partnership (AFPartnership) and expanded its regional boundaries to also include Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee partners. For more information about the AFPartnership contact afp@vt.edu.